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Dowd, Alexandra C.; Martinez, Kassandra; Davidson, Bridget C.; Hixon, J. Gregory; Neal-Beevers, A. Rebecca – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Early impaired response to social partners' distress may negatively impact subsequent social development. Identifying factors contributing to successful responding may inform assessment and intervention. This study explores how: (1) social impairment, and (2) partner familiarity relate to response to partners' distress. Infants with and without…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Antisocial Behavior, Infants
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Luo, Yuyan – Infancy, 2010
Some actions of agents are ambiguous in terms of goal-directedness to young infants. If given reasons why an agent performed these ambiguous actions, would infants then be able to perceive the actions as goal-directed? Prior results show that infants younger than 12 months can not encode the relationship between a human agent's looking behavior…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Infant Behavior, Goal Orientation
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Moll, Henrike; Koring, Cornelia; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2006
In the studies presented here, infants' understanding of others' attention was assessed when gaze direction cues were not diagnostic. Fourteen-, 18- and 24-month-olds witnessed an adult look to the side of an object and express excitement. In 1 experimental condition this object was new for the adult because she was not present while the child and…
Descriptors: Infants, Comprehension, Attention, Adults